Naginski, Erika

Sculpture and Enlightenment

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ISBN 13:
9780892369591
author:
Naginski, Erika
format:
HardBack
publisher:
Getty Publications
language:
English
Publication Year:
2009
Pages:
336
Dimensions:
27.2 x 19.6 x 2.8 cm
Condition:
New
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£37.57

Description

This 2009 publication chronicles the transformation of public art in eighteenth-century France. As royal and ecclesiastical authority waned under Louis XV's rule, new democratic institutions, metaphysics, and political consciousness emerged, profoundly shaping commemorative sculpture and architecture.

The book examines how artists such as Clodion, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Augustin Pajou, Marie-Joseph Peyre, and Jacques Germain Soufflot responded to the aesthetic philosophies of thinkers like Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Voltaire. It analyzes a range of artistic projects, from unrealized plans for a Bourbon memorial to the sculptural program for the Pantheon.

The book explores how Enlightenment art intersected with historical forces, social movements, and continental philosophies that brought Western culture to the cusp of modernity.

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